Theodore A Postol was born on 1946 and is a professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
19 Facts About Theodore Postol
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The editors of the journal responded to the criticism and decided not to publish the article after they "identified a number of issues with the peer-review and revision process", leading to Theodore Postol resigning from the editorial board.
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Theodore Postol criticized US government statements about the reported success rates of Patriot missiles during the first Gulf War, known as Operation Desert Storm.
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Theodore Postol received his undergraduate degree in physics and his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT.
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Theodore Postol worked at Argonne National Laboratory, where he studied the microscopic dynamics and structure of liquids and disordered solids using neutron, X-ray and light scattering techniques, along with molecular dynamics simulations.
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Theodore Postol worked at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he studied methods of basing the MX missile, and later worked as a scientific adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations.
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In 1990, Theodore Postol received the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society for "incisive technical analysis of national security issues that [have] been vital for informing the public policy debate".
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Three agents of the Defense Security Service arrived unannounced to his campus office and attempted to show him other classified documents, but Theodore Postol refused to look at them, saying the visit was meant to silence him, which the Defense Security Service denied.
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Theodore Postol demanded the MIT administration under President Charles Vest and Provost Robert Brown investigate possible violations to MIT policies on research misconduct.
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In 2002, this professor's investigation found no evidence of a credible error, but he subsequently recommended a full investigation when Theodore Postol provided a statement of additional concerns.
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Theodore Postol stated that the MIT administration was compliant with the Pentagon's attempts to cover up a fiasco by dragging its feet on an investigation because defense contracts through Lincoln Laboratory constituted a major portion of MIT's operating budget.
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The committee found that Theodore Postol repeatedly violated MIT confidentiality rules "causing personal distress to the Lincoln Laboratory researchers, their families and colleagues".
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Also in 2023, Theodore Postol was accused by other arms control experts of allowing his "long-standing opposition to existing US missile defense programs" to affect his analysis of North Korean missiles.
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Theodore Postol subsequently worked with Maram Susli to analyze the Ghouta attack.
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In 2017, Theodore Postol criticized the unclassified intelligence assessment released by the Trump administration blaming the air forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the April Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
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Theodore Postol analysed the photographic evidence and concluded that the chemical attack was not an air raid, but was conducted from the ground using most probably an emptied 122mm artillery rocket tube, which is normally used as munition of a multiple rocket launcher, filling it with a chemical agent and detonating it by an explosive charge laid on top of it.
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Later in April, Theodore Postol wrote that the "French Intelligence Report of April 26,2017 contradicted the White House Intelligence Report of 11 April 2017".
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Theodore Postol stated that none of the forensic evidence in The New York Times video and a follow-on Times news article on the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack supported the conclusions reported by The New York Times.
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In July 2014, Theodore Postol was quoted in the MIT Technology Review criticising the effectiveness of the Israeli Iron Dome antimissile system.